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Your one-stop-shop for information about the town, its Colonial history, and the surrounding area. Diorama of the Battle of Lexington Dozens of book titles, specializing in history and Colonial New England Lexington-themed apparel...Read More

Built in 1847, the Depot building was once the social center and ceremonial heart of Lexington. At one time, as many as nineteen trains stopped there each day transporting passengers to and from...Read More

The gravestones on this site, dating from 1690, are the oldest in Lexington. Burials here include many Revolutionary and Civil war soldiers and veterans, including a British soldier wounded on the British retreat...Read More

Originally built on its present site in 1762, the Belfry was moved to the Battle Green in 1768. From there the bell summoned people to worship, warned them of danger, tolled on their...Read More

The Lexington Minuteman is a life-size bronze figure of a colonial farmer with musket by Boston sculptor Henry H. Kitson. It stands at the southeast corner of the Lexington Battle Green, facing the...Read More

It was here, on the morning of April 19, 1775, that “the first blood was spilt in the dispute with Great Britain,” as George Washington wrote in his diary. In this first skirmish,...Read More